saarang india quiz finals

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BOUNCE AND POUNCE 1!

1It has been found that a particular type of ornaments were widely used during the Kot Yaman phase (2800-2600 BC) of Indus Valley civilisation. These ornaments made of seashells, were carved into various geometric shapes and had holes pierced into them so that they could be used for the desired purpose.

Similar ornaments appeared by around 1500 B.C in China and by 13th century A.D in Europe.

These ornaments are considered to be the predecessors of what widely used simple device in modern day ?

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A former head of a constitutional body, he was admired for his uprightness and fearlessness

He completely revolutionized the way the body functioned and was conferred with a Magsaysay Award in 1996

However, the powers would be were not pleased, and the structure of the body was changed, which was widely seen as an attempt to clip his wings

Who? What change?

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TN Seshan

To reduce his powers, the Constitution was amended to include two more Election Commissioners along with a Chief Election Commisioner

3Dalal Foundation, a coalition of activist groups against environmental and human rights violations, state repression & corporate crime in India, instituted a one time set of awards in 2007.

The winners were those who, in foundation’s opinion, commit or abet such activity, in particular politicians, businessmen and bureaucrats.The ceremony drew attention to the ongoing controversies over the Bhopal Gas Tragedy and violence in Nandigram and Singur.

After whom was these awards named?

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1. Best Environmental Talk the Talk Award: Ashok Punjwani

2. Birds of a Feather Award: Mukesh Ambani

3. Bureaucrat for Business Award: B.K. Chaturvedi

4. Money Can Buy You Law Award: T.K.A Nair

5. Best Diplomat for Welfare of Transnational Corporations: Ronen Sen

6. The World is a Business Award: P. Chidambaram

7. Best Use of an Inside-Outside Strategy: Abhishek Manu Singhvi

8. Lifetime Spent Evolving Opportunities from Disasters: Babulal Gaur

9. Extraordinary Contributions to the Progress of International Capital: Kamal Nath

10. Best Use of the Revolving Door: Montek Singh Ahluwalia

11. Best Friend of Big Business: Manmohan Singh

12. Dynastic Loyalty to the Empire: Ratan Tata

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4If one go to Haridwar and come across Brahmin Priests or ‘Pandas’, mostly they would be having voluminous records called ‘Bahi Khate’. These handwritten records, passed down to them over generations are classified according to the villages/districts and are updated periodically. Special designated Pandit families are incharge of each districts, with a few of them being incharge of districts which are in present day Pakistan as well.

The records are similar to ‘Panjis’ maintained by Maithil Brahmins in Bihar.

What is Bahi Khate, that is also used for settling legal issues in many cases?

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Hindu Genealogy RegistersAs Haridwar has traditionally been a site, for death rites and also Shraaddha, amongst Hindus, it soon also became customary for the family pandits (priest) to record each visit of the family, along with their gotra, family tree, marriages and members present etc., grouped according to family and home town. And over the centuries, these registers became an important genealogical source for many families, part of splintered Hindu families, in tracing their family tree and family history as well, especially after the Partition of India in 1947

5The image shown in the next slide is of New Lucky Restaurant, located in Lal Darwaza Area of Ahmedabad.

If one visit this restaurant, he can see nearly a dozen green coloured structures as the owner Krishnan Kutty Nair chose not to destroy of these structures while constructing the restaurant. Instead he has sealed of these structures using iron grills. Every morning waiters spend some time wiping these structures and decorate them with fresh flowers.

What are these structures, which the owner believes has helped in flourishing his business?

Graveyards/Coffins

6a) Owing to geographical reasons, the natives of Longwa village of Mon district in Nagaland is granted with a special privilege/relaxation from certain provisions mentioned in Constitution of India. What privilege/relaxation?

b) The image in the next slide shows the house of “The Angh”, the hereditary chief of Longwa. Going by part a) what is so special about this house?

a. Dual Citizenship - For Example,The chief’s son is an employee in Myanmarese Armyb. India-Myanmar border passes right through this house

7. Id XRajiv Motwani (1962-2009), who completed his BTech in computer science from IIT Kanpur and PhD in computer science from University of Berkeley was a professor at Stanford University. He co-authored X alongwith Terry Winograd and two other then PhD students (one of whom X is named after) as a part of their research project in the year 1996.

Pagerank AlgorithmPageRank is an algorithm used by Google Search to rank websites in their search engine results. It was named after Larry Page, one among the two PhD students and the other being a certain Sergey Brin.

8Jatinga, a small village located in Assam has been witnessing a strange phenomenon every year between the months of September and November. The phenomenon occurs in foggy, cloudy and misty atmospheric conditions, usually between 7pm and 10pm.

Although no concrete explanation has been given till date, one popular theory says that the subject of the phenomeneon, gets attracted towards light, and hence rush to the light sources, thus resulting in something

What phenomenon am I talking about, that is usually associated with Homo Sapiens?

Mass Bird Suicide

9)Salman Khan and Somy Ali was signed on for a Buland in the 90s; however the movie could not be released despite being almost 80 percent complete. It was widely reported in the media that a movie stated to be released in early 2017 has its plot lifted from Buland for both the movies have the story of a man’s revenge for the rape and murder of his girlfriend. The makers of the 2017 movie has rubbished the claims and have maintained that their script wasn’t copied.

Give me the name of the 2017 movie and make sure you have got the spelling right.

10The TCS 10000 m race is an annual competition held in Bangalore every year, usually in the month of May. Mosinet Geremew of Ethiopia won this year’s event by finishing in 28 minutes and 36 seconds. He had won the same event in 2015 as well, thus becoming the first person to retain his title in the events 8 year history.

However midway into the race, it was his fellow countrymen Mule Wasihun who was enjoying a healthy lead when he took a wrong turn and lost his way. He eventually found his way back and was still in the lead. However due to some strange circumstances he could finish the competition only at 9th position.

What was this strange/freakish circumstance?

He was attacked by a stray dog

11Killick, Nixon and Company, set up in 1857, created the CPRC to act as its agents. They floated a joint venture with erstwhile British government to establish necessary requirements in 1903 to transport cotton from Vidarbha to Manchester, England. The arrangements that they made is fully operational even today, and is a lifeline for poor people in Yavatmal and Amravati district in Maharashtra

Two parts to the question

a. How is this arrangement the only one of its kind in India?

b. What fully romantic name extracted from mythology is given to this arrangement

a. India’s Only Privately Owned Railway Lineb. Shakunthala Railways

12The image on the right side shows an Orchid with the scientific name Cypripedioideae, which is also the state flower of two North-east Indian states. Owing to its resemblance to a daily used entity, what is its common name?

Looking for a 2 worded answer (IMAGE FOLLOWS)

Lady’s Slipper

13. Give a and b (part points available)

There are only 3 entries under “foodstuff” category in the list of Geographical Indications in India.One is the Dharwad Pedha from Karnataka. The other two are from its neighbouring states. They are :-

a. A Naivedyam offered by a Temple

b. The first non vegetarian dish in India to get the status

a.Tirupathi Laddu b. Hyderabadi Haleem

14The image shows a temple in Guwahati Assam. The name of these temples lost its significance (in a certain way) due to a certain event that happened in August 2006.

The same name is given to temples in Ujjain and Allahabad as well as to a cluster of temples in and around Nasik(Maharashtra), Kumbakonam and Kundrathur(Tamil Nadu), to mention a few.

What is this name ?

Navagraha Temple

15.Id this Novel published by Chatto and Windus and shortlisted for booker prize for fiction in 1999.

The novel intricate family relationship of two countries: India and USA. The core characters comprise a family living in a small town in India, where provincial customs and attitudes dictate the future of all children: girls are to be married off and boys are to become as educated as possible.Uma spends her life in subservience to her older demanding parents, while massive effort and energy is expended to ensure Arun's education and placement in a university in Massachusetts, and his intense dislike to American food and cooking is specially noted in the novel.

The novel’s name name has two words:- second word, an antonym to the first word, differs the first word by one alphabet.

16)A musical InstrumentIn the Hindu Ramayana epic, after the war, Hanuman picked up this musical instrument and returned to North India. In Rajasthan and Gujarat, it was the first musical instrument to be learned by princes. The Sangit tradition of Rajasthan further helped in popularizing the instrument among ladies as well.

The western stringed musical instruments such as the violin and viola were later based on this instrument.

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17. Id X and the stateThough envisaged as the state capital during the statehood agitation, the Dixit Commission for the search of a new capital noted that the interim capital then is a more suitable place as the permanent capital owing to the factors like its distance from national capital, centralised population and safety from natural calamities when compared to X.

Rightly said, X bordering NH 87, is 150 km away from Ramnagar the nearest railway station and 58 km from the nearest airport at Gauchar.

But subsequent governments have adhered to the promise of greater infrastructural development including roads, water supply, helipads and airstrips to pave X’s way as the future capital of the state.

A session of the state legislative assembly held on 17 and 18 November 2016 for the first time in the newly constructed, grand Legislative assembly building at Bhararisain, some 14km away from X is also a move in this direction.

Gairsain ; Uttarakhand

18 X?After being trained as a barrister in London, X joined the freedom struggle during the 1930s and was arrested several times. X was in the Nashik jail in 1930, when Jayaprakash Narayan came in contact with him and together they launched the Congress Socialist Party in 1934. X was a close friend of Jawaharlal Nehru and a member of Constituent Assembly of India, representing the Indian National Congress. He introduced the rejected proposal for a uniform civil code to be included in the Constitution of India in 1947.

After Stalin's purges and takeover of Eastern Europe, X moved away from Socialism and became a supporter of free market economics.

In August 1960, X along with C. Rajagopalachari and N. G. Ranga formed the Swatantra Party. X was one of the few politicians who opposed the nationalisation of banks by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

Minocher Rustom "Minoo" Masani

19. Id X and X’Traditionally itinerant, these Romani people of Central Europe arrived in Germany and Austria in the Late Middle Ages from India, eventually splitting into two groups: Eftavagarja ("the Seven Caravans") and Estraxarja ("from Austria"). X Romani is the variety of Romani spoken by these people in Germany, France, Austria, some parts of northern Italy and other adjacent regions. 

The popular notion among the X themselves is that the term X may be derived from X’, a homophonic variation of X and the name of the people of a region in Pakistan, named so due to their region’s geographical proximity with a prominent river.

X- Sinti;X’- Sindhi

20. Id the movie (X) and the military operation it is based onThe film, directed by Chetan Anand starts with an air raid by Pakistan Air Force (PAF) on an Indian Air Force (IAF) airbase in the western sector in India. After the raid a pilot (Raaj Kumar) takes an oath while standing near the body of a dead ground crewman - "Jawaab dene aaunga, is jawan ki kasam, X" (we will avenge, we swear by this soldier, X(in English)). The credits start while the title song of the movie is played in the background (sung by the Mohammed Rafi and Manna Dey).

The movie revolves around the IAF's mission of destroying a PAF radar which blocks IAF pilots radios in combat. Indian intelligence plant Mohini who informs the IAF about the jammer. PAF's counter intelligence learns about her and they zero in on her on that very night. As soon her programme is finished, the IAF air raids the studio while she is still inside.

In the dogfight with Pak, Raaj Kumar's jet is destroyed and he crashes. He radios for help and the IAF fighters destroy the pursuing Pakistani soldiers and their vehicles. The movie ends with IAF's flypast on the Republic day parade in New Delhi with the title song in the background.

X- Hindustan Ki KasamOperation Cactus Lilly

21. Id X and YOn his arrival to India, X established the primary form of Y at Selaiyur village, a suburb of Chennai. In 1972, he obtained a piece of land in Guindy on lease from the Forest Department of the Government of Tamil Nadu and, with the help of a group of naturalists from Chennai, set up bigger one Y and soon constituted a trust to manage its affairs.

Y was conceived to rehabilitate the Irula tribe who are known for their expertise in catching a particular reptile and had been left jobless after the ban on its trade. X was able to successfully use their expertise in the production of some clinically important drugs.

X and his sister grew up in New York City. After the birth of his sister Nina, his mother Doris Norden and his stepfather, Rama Chattopadhyaya moved the family to India when X was seven. X's stepfather was a pioneer in color film processing in Mumbai for Bollywood. 

X- Romulus WhitakerY- Chennai Snake Park Trust/ Guindy Snake Park

22.Y was just 16 when Subhash Chandra Bose visited Rangoon at the height of World War II to collect funds and recruit volunteers for INA. 

On meeting Y’s father, Bose said, “Due to her innocence, she gave away all her jewellery. So, I have come to return it.”

While her father, a freedom fighter who had himself made massive donations to Bose’s cause, simply smiled in reply, an indignant Y said, “They are not my father’s, they are mine. I gave all of them to you, and I will not take them back.”

So stubborn was the teenager that Bose could not but admire her determination. He told her, “Lakshmi (money) comes and goes but not X. You have the wisdom of X. Hence, I name you X.” This was how Y became XY from that day onwards.

So persuasive was she that the very next day, Bose recruited XY and four of her friends as spies in INA’s intelligence wing….

An endnote: For a long time, this veteran freedom fighter lived alone in a dilapidated and cramped one-room apartment in Chennai, adorned only by several photographs of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Recently, the Tamil Nadu government allotted her a house, albeit an old one in a housing colony.

Saraswathi Rajamani

23Give XA picturesque tourist destination and a trekking spot, X has attracted attention because of the human skeletal remains that are visible at its bottom when the snow melts. Local legend says that the King of Kanauj, Raja Jasdhaval, with his pregnant wife, Rani Balampa, their servants, a dance troupe and others went on a pilgrimage to Nanda Devi shrine, and the group faced a storm with large hailstones, from which the entire party perished near X.

Radiocarbon dating of the bones at Oxford University's Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit determined the time period to be 850 CE ±30 years. Results indicated that 70 percent of them had an affinity with Iran, while the remaining belonged to the local population. Researchers have concluded that the skeletons are the remains of people killed in a sudden, violent hailstorm in the 9th century.

Roopkund Lake

24The main block of the Supreme Court building was built on a 17-acre triangular plot and its foundation stone was laid by Dr. Rajendra Prasad on October 29, 1954

The apex court building is flanked by two wings. The right wing consists of the bar room, offices of the attorney general and other law officers and the library while the left wing is comprised of offices of the court. The Central Wing comprises the Chief Justice’s Court at the Centre with two court halls on the either side. 

This design of the Supreme Court building has been in accordance with the desire of Dr Rajendra Prasad that it should truly ‘represent’ justice.

How does it do so?

Designed and shaped such that the building represents the scales of justice

25Jivaroan peoples refers to groups of indigenous peoples in the headwaters of the Marañon River and its tributaries, in northern Peru and eastern Ecuador.

The Jivaro people are famous for their head-hunting raids and shrinking the heads from these raids. These raiding parties usually only attack one homestead per raid, killing the men, spearing the older women to death, and taking younger women as their brides. Once the heads have been collected they are shrunk by cutting the skull vertically and removing the skull and jaw bone. Then, the head is boiled and later mixed with hot gravel and sand, shrinking the head to the size of a large orange. The head is sewn along the lips, which are blackened with charcoal.

How did this gruesome barbaric act, among many others, invite the irks of Indians in the 1984

Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom

26The image shows the ballroom of Hyatt Regency Chennai.

In November 2013, alongwith various other modifications, a soundproof cubicle glass partition was added to the room for a few days.

Why?

Venue for world chess championship

27In the early 1630s, a plan was made by the then ruler to do something at a specific location in Burhanpur. However many issues occurred. Some of which are as follows:

Transportation of raw material from faraway Markana.

Narrow breadth of river Tapti, on the banks of which this place is situated.

Insufficient depth of rockbed.

Eventually the location was shifted to a place closer to Markana.

Why was Burhanpur the initial location? Which is the location closer to Markana mentioned here?

Mumtaz Mahal died here in 1631Agra

28. FITBThe todas are a small pastoral community who live in the isolated nilgiri plateau.They live in small hamlets called munds. The Toda huts, also called dogles, are of an oval, pent-shaped construction. They are built of bamboo. Each hut is enclosed within a wall of loose stones. In accordance with the resemblance of these munds to something, they are fondly nicknamed as ‘Indian ---------- -------’

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Hobbit Holes

29The Sudarshan Chakra standing at the top of temple is 20 feet in height and weights a ton. It said to be visible from every corner of the city and it is installed in such a way that it makes you feel that it is facing toward you irrespective of the place you are in.

The chakra was installed around 2000 years ago.

Take any place on earth, on daytime the breeze from sea comes to land and the opposite occurs in the evening but In this city it is observed to be just the reverse.

Where exactly can you find this structure : (Specificity - IIT Madras as opposed to Madras) IMAGE FOLLOWS

Puri Jagannath Temple

30Today, 1791 jewellery packets (the value of which are unknown) are still in custody of the SBI, and on an average, four to five packets are redeemed every month. The process of redeeming today is quite different as most of the persons who had pledged the jewellery are no longer alive. Those who claim the packets are the legal heirs of the original debtor who have been assigned the packet through the inventory process. 

It was in 1992 that PV Narasimha Rao's government negotiated the release of this gold and authorised SBI to import a total of 6,500 packets weighing 280 kgs. The gold packets were assigned to the State Bank of India who paid $47,384 in return.

Who are the redeemers of these gold packets?

Ornaments deposited by the people of Goa in the Banco Nacional Ultramarino during Portuguese rule returned to the Indian government during the visit of Indian Minister of State for External Affairs, Eduardo Faleiro in July 1991

31Anand Mohan Chakraborti, an Indian American Scientist, applied for patenting one of his products while he was working at GE. He was initially denied the patent by the Patent Office because the patent code was thought to preclude patents on living organisms. The United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals overturned the decision in Chakrabarty's favor. Sidney A. Diamond, Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks, then appealed to the Supreme Court. However patent was granted by the U.S. Supreme Court , in a 5-4 decision, thus being the first of its kind in U.S.How is this patent the first of its kind,something which is debatabed even today?

The first U.S. patent for a genetically modified organism.

Prof. Chakrabarty genetically engineered a new species of Pseudomonas bacteria ("the oil-eating bacteria") in 1971 U.S. utility patents had been granted to living organisms before, including two pure bacterial cultures, patented by Louis Pasteur. Chakrabarty's modified bacterium was granted a patent in the U.K. before the U.S. patent came through.But this is the first genetically modified organism to be patented.

32In South Great Georges Street,Dublin, Ireland there was a restaurant which deals with Indian Cuisines only. Its name comes from the Hindi/Urdu word for ‘diamond’. It is now shut and replaced.

This restaurant is a subject to various memes as people turn to photoshop to edit the name thereby subjecting it to jokes, often confusing the ROW about what the actual name of restaurant is.What’s the name of restaurant(6 letters) and what is the editing that is carried out?

Nagina Tandoori

CLOSED THEME ROUND

Exhaustive 10 questions, but not 10 entities5/0Points for the theme indicated in slides

1) 50/-25

After gaining an extremely positive response for its most affordable cruiser X, it was expected that Harley Davidson would Launch Y, its successor in the Indian Market by 2015. However the company had a change of heart and decided against it. The company said that this decision was made according to the market feedback. The Harley Y would have been an even more competitively priced offering, priced at around Rs. 3.5 lakhs (ex-showroom) and the most affordable cruiser to come from the American giant. Both the Harley X and Y cruisers are produced at the company’s Bawal plant in Haryana, apart from being produced at the Harley facility in the US.Give me X and Y. Y can be said to be equal to 2/3rd of X when You look at its naming

2) 45/-22.5

Videos follows: How can u connect these two Goals? Mute audio

3) 40/-20

A 1962 Hindi Psychological thriller film starring Biswajeet, Waheeda Rehman, Madan Puri, Sajjan and Asit Sen was a loose adaptation of ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’. The story revolves around Kumar, who comes to village of Chandanghat, two decades after his grandfather was killed there.The film topped the box office chart in 1962, becoming a "super hit." It became very popular for the song Kahin deep jale sung by Lata Mangeshkar.A 1988 horror film starring Mithun Chakraborty, Dimple Kapadia, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Vinod Mehra, Amjad Khan, Shakti Kapoor, Anupam Kher and Om Prakash is also having the same name and is having a plot which is slightly similar to the 1962 one.Id the 1962 or 1988 film

4) 35/-17.5

Identify this palace located in Murshidabad, west bengal.The palace earlier known as Bara Kothi was renamed with a special emphasis on doors. The concrete bed on which the foundation stone was to be laid was built so deep that the Nawab Nazim Humayun Jah had to use a ladder to descend inorder to lay the foundation stone.The palace has a good number of false doors so that if a predator tried to do something wrong and escape, he can be caught as he would be confused by the false doors.

5) 30/-15

In the State of Madras v. Champakam Dorairajan case, a Brahmin woman in Madras challenged the state's Communal General Order, which established caste quotas in government-supported medical and engineering schools, on the grounds that it denied her equality under the law. In its ruling the Supreme Court upheld the Madras High Court verdict, which in turn had struck down the Communal Government Order (G.O) passed in 1927 in the Madras Presidency. The Communal G.O had provided caste based reservation in government jobs and college seats.

What did this led to on 18th June 1951?

6) 25/-12.5

A mythological Character is believed to have died at this place, located at the confluence of Madha and Visui rivers, near Akbarpur, UP Hence this place is a hindu pilgrimage centre.Who is this mythological character or which is this place? Who killed him?IMAGE FOLLOWS

7) 20/-10

On What Occasion wasThis Stamp Released?

8) 15/-7.5

Scholars have noted the strong similarity between a few of the stories in ------------- and Aesop's Fables. Examples are 'The Ass in the Panther's Skin' and 'The Ass without Heart and Ears'. "The Broken Pot" is similar to Aesop's "The Milkmaid and Her Pail", "The Gold-Giving Snake" is similar to Aesop's "The Man and the Serpent" and "Le Paysan et Dame serpent" by Marie de France (Fables). Other well-known stories include "The Tortoise and The Geese" and "The Tiger, the Brahmin and the Jackal". Similar animal fables are found in most cultures of the world, although some folklorists view India as the prime source.

9) 10/-5

In May 2010, two Mumbai artists, Bose Krishnamachari and Riyaz Komu, were approached by then culture minister of a particular Indian State. Acknowledging the lack of an international platform for contemporary art in India, Bose and Riyas proposed the idea of a ----------, on the lines of Venice ----------.What did this led to ?

10) 5/0

India vs England Test match at Lord’s 2011 was historical in the sense it had two milestones.1) It was the 100th test between India and England

What was the other milestone?

Exchange Your Sheets

1) 50/-25

After gaining an extremely positive response for its most affordable cruiser X, it was expected that Harley Davidson would Launch Y, its successor in the Indian Market by 2015. However the company had a change of heart and decided against it. The company said that this decision was made according to the market feedback. The Harley Y would have been an even more competitively priced offering, priced at around Rs. 3.5 lakhs (ex-showroom) and the most affordable cruiser to come from the American giant. Both the Harley X and Y cruisers are produced at the company’s Bawal plant in Haryana, apart from being produced at the Harley facility in the US.Give me X and Y. Y can be said to be equal to 2/3rd of X when You look at its naming

X- Street 750, Y-Street 500

2) 45/-22.5

Videos follows: How can u connect these Goals? Mute audio

Against Guam - Chetris 50th international goal for India (June 2015)Against Afghanistan - His 50th official international goal or India (Januar 2016)He has scored one against Qatar in a Non- Fifa match and two for India under-20

3) 40/-20

A 1962 Hindi Psychological thriller film starring Biswajeet, Waheeda Rehman, Madan Puri, Sajjan and Asit Sen was a loose adaptation of ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’. The story revolves around Kumar, who comes to village of Chandanghat, two decades after his grandfather was killed there.The film topped the box office chart in 1962, becoming a "super hit." It became very popular for the song Kahin deep jale sung by Lata Mangeshkar.A 1988 horror film starring Mithun Chakraborty, Dimple Kapadia, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Vinod Mehra, Amjad Khan, Shakti Kapoor, Anupam Kher and Om Prakash is also having the same name and is having a plot which is slightly similar to the 1962 one.Id the 1962 or 1988 film

4) 35/-17.5

Identify this palace located in Murshidabad, west bengal.The palace earlier known as Bara Kothi was renamed with a special emphasis on doors. The concrete bed on which the foundation stone was to be laid was built so deep that the Nawab Nazim Humayun Jah had to use a ladder to descend inorder to lay the foundation stone.The palace has a good number of false doors so that if a predator tried to do something wrong and escape, he can be caught as he would be confused by the false doors.

Hazarduari Mahal

5) 30/-15

In the State of Madras v. Champakam Dorairajan case, a Brahmin woman in Madras challenged the state's Communal General Order, which established caste quotas in government-supported medical and engineering schools, on the grounds that it denied her equality under the law. In its ruling the Supreme Court upheld the Madras High Court verdict, which in turn had struck down the Communal Government Order (G.O) passed in 1927 in the Madras Presidency. The Communal G.O had provided caste based reservation in government jobs and college seats.

What did this led to on 18th June 1951?

Passing of the first constituitional amendment

6) 25/-12.5

A mythological Character is believed to have died at this place, located at the confluence of Madha and Visui rivers, near Akbarpur, UP Hence this place is a hindu pilgrimage centre.Who is this mythological character or which is this place? Who killed him?IMAGE FOLLOWS

Shravan/Shravan Kshetra ; Dasaratha

7) 20/-10

On What Occasion wasThis Stamp Released?

INC Centenary

8) 15/-7.5

Scholars have noted the strong similarity between a few of the stories in ------------- and Aesop's Fables. Examples are 'The Ass in the Panther's Skin' and 'The Ass without Heart and Ears'. "The Broken Pot" is similar to Aesop's "The Milkmaid and Her Pail", "The Gold-Giving Snake" is similar to Aesop's "The Man and the Serpent" and "Le Paysan et Dame serpent" by Marie de France (Fables). Other well-known stories include "The Tortoise and The Geese" and "The Tiger, the Brahmin and the Jackal". Similar animal fables are found in most cultures of the world, although some folklorists view India as the prime source.

Panchatantra

9) 10/-5

In May 2010, two Mumbai artists, Bose Krishnamachari and Riyaz Komu, were approached by then culture minister of a particular Indian State. Acknowledging the lack of an international platform for contemporary art in India, Bose and Riyas proposed the idea of a ----------, on the lines of Venice ----------.What did this led to ?

Kochi Muziris Binale

10) 5/0

India vs England Test match at Lord’s 2011 was historical in the sense it had two milestones.1) It was the 100th test between India and England

What was the other milestone?

2000TH TEST MATCH

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